文档介绍：On_Thomas_Hardy(英语论文)Ⅰ.BackgroundofThomasHardyThomasHardy(1840-1928)isoneofthegreatestEnglishpoetandnovelistbetweenthe18thCenturyandthe20thcentury(Victorianperiod).Hardyisfamousforhisdepictionsoftheimaginarycounty“Wessex”.Hardyisacross-’sworkreflectedhisstoicalpessimismandsenseoftragedyinhumanlife.(womenespecially),andofdeepchangesofsocialeconomy,politics,,lawandreligion,,andwasinfluencedbytheskepticismofneotericscientificideology,sothathisopiniontowardslifewaspessimisticandfated,andhethoughtthatonmatterwhatkindofdegreehumansocietyhaddeveloped,humanbeingwereunabletogetridofthetricks,coincidenceswereeverywhere,nature’stingesuffusedaround,environmentservedasafoiltotheroles,andtheroles’,inaddition,Hardyhadworkedasanarchitectinhisearlytime,,charactersandsceneriesofHardy’sworksweresofine,petewithhim.Ⅱ.ThomasHardy’,onhisearlystage,“Evangelicalstyleandtheology”thattheeighteen-year-oldHardywrote,wecanconcludesthatitprovidesconvincingevidenceofHardy’salreadybeingsympathetictoEvangelicalismbyOctober1858,histakingsufficientlyseriouslyhisso-called“dream”ofordinationtopracticewritingasermon,and,mostsignificantly,hishavingapersonalfaiththatwasbothardentandorthodox”.Thisnewevidenceprovesimportantbecauseitrequiresrewritingthehistoryofthenovelist’’